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Aminoxyl-Catalyzed Electrochemical Diazidation of Alkenes Mediated by a Metastable ChargeTransfer Complex Juno C. Siu‡, Joseph B. Parry‡, Song Lin* Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States Supporting Information Placeholder

ABSTRACT: We report the development of a new aminoxyl radical catalyst, CHAMPO, for the electrochemical diazidation of alkenes. Mediated by an anodically generated charge-transfer complex in the form of CHAMPO–N3, radical diazidation was achieved across a broad scope of alkenes without the need for a transition metal catalyst or a chemical oxidant. Mechanistic data support a dual catalytic role for the aminoxyl serving as both a single-electron oxidant and a radical group transfer agent.

The discovery of reactions mediated by organic radicals continues to provide solutions to challenging synthetic problems in traditional two-electron chemistry.1 In this context, design and implementation of new catalytic strategies have both expanded the toolbox available for accessing new synthetic targets and transformed the fundamental understanding of reactions involving openshell pathways.2 For example, persistent aminoxyl radicals [e.g., (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-1-yl)oxyl (TEMPO)] have been extensively explored in catalytic oxidation reactions with both conventional chemical3 and electrochemical techniques,4 which has given rise to synthetically useful processes for small-molecule and polymer syntheses. Despite significant advances, we contend that the scope of TEMPO chemistry remains to be fully explored. TEMPO and related N-oxyl radicals can undergo one-electron redox processes, granting access to three discrete oxidation states.4 This feature distinguishes these radicals from common organic compounds and likens them to many transition metal complexes. In this fashion, TEMPO has been shown to enable single-electron oxidation events in an inner-sphere manner via the formation of metastable closed-shell intermediates.5,6 Nevertheless, the systematic use of the “metallic” character of N-oxyls in catalyst development remains meager.7 To date, reactions catalyzed by N-oxyls are largely confined to oxidations of alcohols,8 aldehydes,9 amines,10 (thio)amides,11 and peroxyl radicals.12 In these transformations, the persistent radical is used primarily in two capacities—as a single/two-electron oxidant or an H atom abstractor. In this report, we expand the scope of N-

oxyl catalysis in the development of metal-free electrochemical diazidation of alkenes. We previously reported a first-generation electrochemical protocol for the diazidation of alkenes catalyzed by Mn (Scheme 1A, Eq 1).13 This work was built on foundational contributions by Minisci,14 Magnus,15 Snider,16 Xu,17 and others18 in alkene diazidation using conventional chemical methods. These reactions provide 1,2-diazides in a single step from common alkenes, giving access to vicinally dinitrogenated structures that are highly prevalent in biomedically and synthetically relevant molecules.19 Nevertheless, all methods reported to date require the use of a transition metal or a chemical oxidant, or both. These reactive species often lead to environmentally deleterious wastes and present an explosion hazard when used alongside N3–. Although our electrochemical protocol13 circumvents the use of strong chemical oxidants, the need for a metal catalyst and a Brønsted acid (HOAc) as the sacrificial oxidant remains undesirable from a safety perspective. Scheme 1. Mechanistic hypothesis for N-oxyl-catalyzed alkene diazidation (A) Background: Electrochemical diazidation and azidooxygenation MnBr2 (cat.) Diazidation

NaN3 R

via

electrolysis

N3 R

N3 (Eq 1)

[MnIII]–N3

TEMPO Azidooxygenation via TEMPO–N3

OTMP N3 (Eq 2)

R TMP = 2,2,6,6tetramethylpiperidyl

For seminal developments in chemical diazidation, see refs. 14–18. For seminal developments in chemical azidooxygenation, see ref. 20b.

(B) Working mechanistic hypothesis for aminoxyl (NO•)-catalyzed alkene diazidation e–

NO•

N3–

via:

ref. 20a

N N

N3•

R R

N3 (I)

N

N O

TEMPO–N3 CTC

TEMPO–N3

R

OTMP N3 R Azidooxygenation (undesired; TEMPO is consumed)

TEMPO

–TEMPO N3

N3

N3 R Diazidation (desired; catalytic in TEMPO)

While studying the electrochemical alkene diazidation, we discovered a new electrochemical method for the

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azidooxygenation of alkenes mediated by TEMPO (Scheme 1A, Eq 2).20 Detailed mechanistic investigation showed that TEMPO plays two roles in this reaction. Aside from being a radical trap, TEMPO also promotes the single-electron oxidation of N3– to N3●.21 This process is mediated by a metastable charge-transfer complex (CTC) formed between anodically generated TEMPO+ and N3–. Upon azidyl addition, the nascent carbon-centered radical I rapidly combines with TEMPO to deliver the masked vicinal aminoalcohol (Scheme 1B, black-red pathway). We envisioned that the TEMPO-consuming azidooxygenation reaction could be engineered into a TEMPO-catalyzed alkene diazidation if intermediate I was terminated by an N3● equivalent instead of directly by TEMPO (Scheme 1B, black-blue pathway). Specifically, we hypothesize that the TEMPO–N3 adduct may behave as an azidyl group transfer agent akin to the function of a redoxactive transition metal complex (e.g., [MnIII]–N3). This operation will furnish the desired vicinal diazide while returning the aminoxyl from an oxoammonium ion to a neutral radical oxidation state. We investigated the plausibility of N-oxyl-catalyzed electrochemical diazidation (Table 1). In our alkene azidooxygenation, diazidation products were occasionally observed in small quantities when sterically encumbered alkenes were used. The diazide formation was more pronounced at a higher applied voltage and using less TEMPO. Under these conditions, the [TEMPO+]/[TEMPO] ratio is maximized to favor the formation of the CTC and mitigate the undesired azidooxygenation. For example, the electrolysis of alkene 1a, NaN3, and 1 equiv TEMPO in MeCN/H2O at a cell voltage of 2.7 V22 yielded 36% 1,2diazide 2a in addition to 45% 3a (entry 1). Decreasing TEMPO loading to a catalytic amount still provided encouragingly 11% 2a alongside 7% 3a (entry 2). However, the catalyst was unproductively consumed in the azidooxygenation pathway, which was also indicated by the color change of the reaction medium. Upon starting electrolysis, the solution turned dark red, which is characteristic of the TEMPO–N3 CTC. This color disappeared after a mere 10 minutes as a result of TEMPO depletion. This visual indicator thus provided a convenient readout for reaction optimization. Table 1. Reaction optimizationa

We reasoned that heating the reaction would promote homolysis of the C–O bond in byproduct 3a, thus returning both TEMPO and the carbon-centered radical to the catalytic cycle.23 Counterintuitively, this operation led to rapid decomposition of the CTC and suppressed diazidation. Instead, cooling the reaction improved the yield to 46% at 0 °C and 61% at –10 °C (entries 3, 4). However, the color of the CTC decayed after 2 h with concomitant formation of 3a (ca. 5%). Studies by Bobbitt,8k Minteer/Sigman24, and Stahl25 showed that the distal C4 substituent of the aminoxyl has a profound influence on its reactivity in alcohol oxidation. Accordingly, we surveyed various catalysts26 and found that 4-acetamido-TEMPO (ACT) proved the most promising, furnishing 71% 2a and 99% Me

N3 9

N3

Me N3

Me N3 2r, 77% (dr = 1:1 at C9)c

Me Me N3

Ph

O 2

Reactive functional groups:

N3 Me

Me N3

Me

N3

MeO

N3 2q, 82% (dr = 1:1)

O

O NHFmoc 2l, 81% (dr = 1:1)

Me N3

2n, 55% (dr = 5:1)

Br

N3

2j, 82%

Me Me

N3

Ph

N3

2m, 79%

N3

O

2k, >99%

N3

Me

N3

2i, 72%, dr = 11:1

Me N3

N3

Me

2f, 85%

Ph 2h, 88%

2a, 97%

BocN

N3

N

2g, 79%b

TBSO

N3

2e, 68% N3

N3

MeO

Me N3

O N3

N

OMe

2d, 49%b

N3 Me

2

PhO

8

2c, 70%b

N3

R

LiClO4 (0.1 M), H2O/MeCN (1:12) C(+)/Pt(–), Ecell = 2.7 V, –10°C

1

O

N3

N3 Fe Me N3

N3

2u, 60%d

2v, 97%

O N

N3 Me N 2w, 84%

Me

N3

N3

Me

Me N3

H

2x, 90% (dr = 1:1)

N3

N3

Me

Ts N 2y, 70%

Product derivatization: NH3OTs Fe Me NH3OTs 4, 72%e

Me N3 Ph 5, 52%f

NHAc

TBSO

Me NHBoc NHBoc 6, 63%g

aConditions:

1 (0.2 mmol, 1 equiv), CHAMPO (10 mol%), NaN3 (3 equiv), LiClO4 (1.8 equiv), MeCN/H2O (3.8 mL, 12:1). b15 mol% CHAMPO. cLimonene-1,2-oxide (1r) was purchased as a pair of diastereomers at C1,2. dDetermined by 1H NMR owing to the volatility of the product. eConditions: 2v, PPh3, H2O/THF, reflux; then pTSA. fConditions: 2k, PPh3, H2O/THF, reflux; then Ac2O, NEt3, DCM, 0 °C. gConditions: 2a, H , Pd/C, EtOAc, Boc O. 2 2

The 1,2-diazide products can be readily reduced to the corresponding vicinal diamines using Staudinger reduction or catalytic hydrogenation. Notably, the different steric environments of the two azido groups in 2k enabled chemoselective reduction to form β-azidoamide 5. The diazides could also be readily converted to bistriazoles or 1,2-dinitro compounds,36 which are common structures in energetic materials. Compared with our first-generation Mn-catalyzed alkene diazidation, the new protocol presents several practical advances. For example, replacing the transition metal catalyst with an organocatalyst and the protic acid (HOAc) with H2O eliminates the generation of hazardous metal azides and hydrazoic acid. These features make the diazide synthesis safer and more amenable to practical applications.



We conducted further experiments to exemplify the user friendliness of the protocol (Table 3). Using inexpensive Ni foam as the cathode instead of Pt only marginally decreased product yield (entry 2). Using carbon as both cathode and anode did not provide 2k in appreciable amounts. To make the reaction system metal-free, we carried out electrolysis in a divided cell that completely separates the diazidation from the cathodic proton reduction on Pt (entry 3). The electrolysis was also successfully performed using commercial ElectraSyn 2.037 or AA batteries as the power source (entries 4, 5). Electrolyte choice proved unimportant (entry 6). In fact, given the ionic nature of NaN3, electrolysis in the absence of an additional electrolyte yielded 2k quantitatively (entry 7). Finally, diazidation on a synthetically relevant scale resulted in a promising isolated yield of 69% (entry 8). Table 3. Optimization of the electrolysis setupa Me Ph

“Standard conditions”: CHAMPO (10 mol%) NaN3 (1.5 equiv per C–N) LiClO4 (0.1 M), MeCN/H2O (12:1) C(+)/Pt(–), Ecell = 2.7 V, –10 °C

1k Entry

Variation from “standard conditions”

Me N3 Ph

(A) Cationic pathway I: Direct oxidation of carbon-centered radical I N3

R

(I)

CHAMPO+ or anode single-electron oxidation

R

>99

2

Ni(–) instead of Pt(–)

92

3

Divided cell, constant current of 8 mA

81

4

ElectraSyn 2.0 as power source, 0.3 mmol 1k

82

5

AA batteries (x2) as power source

89

6

Using TBAPF6 instead of LiClO4

95

7

No LiClO4, Ecell = 3.4 Vb

>99

8

1 mmol scale

O R

N(R’)2

anode

N3

oxidation–mesolytic 3 cleavage (C) Radical pathway 2H2O

R

69c

conditions: see Table 1, entry 5. higher cell voltage is applied to compensate for the increased solution resistance between cathode and anode. cIsolated yield; reaction was carried out at a higher substrate concentration (see SI);

Aside from the radical pathway in our initial working mechanistic hypothesis (see Scheme 1B), two additional reaction pathways may be plausible to account for diazidation reactivity. Carbon-centered radical I may undergo single-electron oxidation, either directly on the anode or by CHAMPO+, to generate the corresponding carbocation (II; Scheme 2A). The cation would subsequently react with N3– to form the diazide. Alternatively, azidooxygenated product 3 could be an intermediate en route to the diazide via oxidation and mesolytic cleavage38 to form II (Scheme 2B). Scheme 2. Plausible mechanistic pathways

N3

N3–

N3

N3

R

(II)

2e– N3–

H2 + 2OH– cathode

substrate CHAMPO+ –e–

CHAMPO–N3

Innersphere SET cycle

R

slow N3•

CHAMPO

N3

bA

N3

R

(II)

(B) Cationic pathway II: Oxidation of the azidooxygenation product 3

CHAMPO –e–

Yield (%)

None

N3

N3–

N3

2k

1

aReaction

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N3 (I)

fast Group transfer cycle

CHAMPO+

anode

R

CHAMPO–N3

N3 R

N3

product

N3–

Experimental evidence (Scheme 3) is consistent with our original mechanistic proposal in which the aminoxyl–N3 adduct mediates the radical diazidation, whereas for certain types of substrates, carbocation pathway I also might operate. Reactions with radical clocks showed that cyclopropane 7 and bisallylamine 9/10 underwent radicalinduced ring rupture or 5-exo-trig cyclization, respectively. In all cases, no direct alkene diazidation was observed. In principle, upon radical ring opening or cyclization, the resultant carbon-centered radical could be further oxidized to the cation before nucleophilic azidation; however, these carbocations, either highly electron-deficient or at a primary carbon, would be rather unstable. We also carried out diazidation of amide 13, which—if operating via a carbocation mechanism—would cyclize to furnish oxazoline 15.39 However, electrolysis produced diazide 14 cleanly as the only observable product. Together, these data strongly support the radical mechanism. Scheme 3. Mechanistic probes. Structures in purple are expected products if the second C–N3 formation were via a cationic pathway.


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ASSOCIATED CONTENT Supporting Information. The Supporting Information is available free of charge on the ACS Publications website, including experimental procedures and characterization data (PDF) and crystallographic data for CHAMPO (CCDC1881714) (CIF). We further studied alkene substrates that would lead to resonance-stabilized carbocation intermediates (Scheme 3C) and observed radical-to-carbocation oxidation. For example, camphor-derived alkene 16 was converted to 11% diazide 17 in addition to 42% 1,3-azidoalcohol 18 via carbocation rearrangement. We reasoned that the norbornyl structure selectively stabilizes carbocation (II) but not its radical precursor (I), thus favoring the oxidation of I to II. Notably, neither rearrangement-azidation (19) or direct 1,2azidohydroxylation products were observed. This result strongly supports the hypothesis that the alkene diazidation undergoes predominantly a radical pathway,17b,40 whereas the azidohydroxylation adopts a cationic pathway that triggers the rearrangement.41 Furthermore, 4-methoxy-αmethylstyrene (1g) was converted to diazide 2g (major) and azidoalcohol 20 (minor). A key finding from these experiments is that if a carbocation is formed, its capture by H2O is inevitable. Importantly, the majority of the substrates we investigated (see Table 2) produced no appreciable amounts of azidoalcohol products. This piece of information lends further support for the radical mechanism involving Noxyl-mediated azidyl transfer. Finally, we conducted a control experiment using azidooxygenated product 21 instead of the alkene as the substrate for electrolysis and observed no diazide formation. This result excluded the possibility that N-oxyl adducts are key intermediates in the alkene diazidation (see Scheme 2B). Accordingly, we propose a CHAMPO–N3-mediated electrocatalytic cycle (Scheme 2C). We previously showed that N-oxyl radicals trigger an inner-sphere oxidation pathway that substantially lowers the potential required for

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The authors declare no competing financial interests.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT Financial support was provided by Cornell University and NIGMS (R01GM130928). S.L. thanks the ONR for a Young Investigator Award which supports the synthesis of energetic materials. This study made use of the NMR facility supported by the NSF (CHE-1531632) and the ESR facility supported by NIGMS (P41GM103521). We thank IKA for the donation of ElectraSyn 2.0, Dr. Samantha MacMillan for help with X-ray crystallography analysis, Drs. Ivan Keresztes and Frank Schroeder for help with NMR spectral analysis, Yifan Shen for reproducing experimental results, and Dean Kim for experimental assistance.

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